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Apple will announce the company’s Q4 06 and FY 06 earnings and hold an earnings call with analysts on October 18, 2006 after NASDAQ market close.

The quarterly conference call webcast information is expected to be announced soon.

Apple’s 2006 earnings and unit sales information through Q3:
• Q1 (ended 12/31/05): revenue of $5.75 billion, net quarterly profit of $565 million, 1.254 million Macs, 14.043 million iPods
• Q2 (ended 04/01/06): revenue of $4.36 billion, net quarterly profit of $410 million, 1.112 million Macs, 08.526 million iPods
• Q3 (ended 07/01/06): revenue of $4.37 billion, net quarterly profit of $472 million, 1.327 million Macs, 08.111 million iPods

So far in 2006, Apple has posted revenue of $14.48 billion, net profit of $1.447 billion, and sold 3,693,000 Macs and 30,680,000 iPods.

For reference, Apple’s Q4 2005:
• Q4 (ended 09/24/06): revenue of $3.68 billion, net quarterly profit of $430 million, 1.236 million Macs, 06.451 million iPods

In the last earnings report in July, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer stated, “Looking ahead to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, we expect revenue of about $4.5 to $4.6 billion.”

Yesterday, Citgroup analyst Richard Gardner told clients in a research note that, for Apple’s Q4 2006 (ending September), he is modeling sales of 9 million iPods and expects Apple Computer to sell 18.8 million iPods during Apple’s (Q1 07) December quarter.